X-posted from GD, a Stanford Study. (nt)

[LWolf]

1. I see the value of social interconnectedness.

Some loners are loners, not by choice, but by circumstance, and are thus lonely.

Some of us, though, are "loners" because we actually LIKE being alone.

For those of us who get peace and contentment from solitude, whose stress level rises in groups, who come home exhausted by time interacting in groups; those of us who need solitude to recharge; we are healthier when we get the aloneness that we need.

Being a loner does not mean a lack of compassion or altruism. It can mean a lack of trust; that lack of trust, though, has usually been taught by non-loners.

In a culture that targets those outside the conventional norm to bully, that celebrates that bullying, lack of trust is a given.